Word: arc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowd was not disappointed. With gaping mouths it watched jumper after jumper slant through the air-eight with leaps of over 200 ft.-but it was 130-lb. Birger Ruud who made the spectators gasp with his prodigious and perfect jump of 216 ft., a whizzing arc ending with the wood slapping evenly on the hard snow...
Some hundreds or thousands of years before Christopher Columbus, a huge cluster of metallic meteorites-or a small comet-400 or 500 ft. in diameter and weighing millions of tons, entered the Earth's atmosphere over northeastern Canada, plunged southward in a flaming, thundering arc over the Dakotas and Colorado, no doubt scaring thousands of savages almost out of their wits. Coming to Earth in northern Arizona, the monstrous cluster plunged into the desert, converted underground water into steam, hurled huge gobs of earth and stone skyward to fall back into the crater. The main body of the meteorite...
...most important feature of the new furnace is that contamination of the metal under study, by carbon or other impurities, can be entirely eliminated. The familiar carbon are reaches as high temperatures as the electron furnace; but as an experimental device the carbon arc is less effective because of uncontrollable carbon contamination...
...Sweringens. There is a warmly-written, fact-laden essay on medieval Liibeck, centre of the Hanseatic League, sections devoted to business in Venice and Florence, to booms & crashes in Nurnberg, Antwerp, Bremen, the rise and fall of the Fuggers, the spectacular careers of Jacques Coeur, financier of Joan of Arc, and of Gresham, who backed Queen Elizabeth. But all this, with asides about church finances, taxes, makes up only the first half of the story of the businessman's endless race with ruin...
...past two years a Methodist minister in good standing (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935). Small, blonde and decidedly the most comely of U. S. divines, Miss Utley has been called by newspapers the "Garbo of the Pulpit" and the "Terror of the Tabernacles"; by Dr. Straton the "Joan of Arc of the modern religious world." This reverend miss once declared: "If I were a man, I'd never marry a woman preacher. They declaim too much." But two years ago a shoe salesman named Wilbur Eugene Langkop heard Evangelist Utley preach in Quincy, 111., drove her to Hannibal, Mo., followed...